ONLINE MARKETING SERVICES the Following Additional Terms and Conditions Shall Apply to Any and All Purchases of Online Marketin
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ONLINE MARKETING SERVICES The following additional terms and conditions shall apply to any and all purchases of Online Marketing Services, SEO Optimizer, Local Business Listings or nsMarketing™ Services (as defined below). 1. Description of Service. A. Web.com may make available for purchase, from time to time, a variety of online marketing services in the form of our nsMarketing™ solution, Local Business Listings, and/or SEO Optimizer product, including online banner advertisement creation and publication, pay per click search engine advertising, email communication tools, registration with several World Wide Web search engines and Internet Yellow Pages Directories (as described on our Website), search engine optimization, link building, search submissions, keyword optimization, local, regional and national directory listing and submission, Website and site map analysis, call-tracking, search engine optimized press release service, search engine visibility and/or premium listings services (collectively, "Online Marketing Services", "nsMarketing" or "Services"), as published on the Web.com Website. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement (which includes this and all other applicable Schedules) and during the term of this Agreement, Web.com agrees to provide to you the Online Marketing Services you purchase during the sign-up process. Web.com reserves the right to amend its Online Marketing Services offerings and to add, delete, suspend or modify the terms and conditions of such Online Marketing Services, at any time and from time to time, and to determine whether and when any such changes apply to both existing and future customers. B. In order to use the Services, you must obtain access to the Internet/World Wide Web, either directly or through devices that access Web-based content, and pay any service fees associated with such access. In addition, you must provide all equipment necessary to make such connection to the Internet/World Wide Web, including a computer and modem or other access device. 2. Your Obligations. A. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, incomplete or not current, or we have reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, incomplete or not current, Web.com has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Services (or any portion thereof). B. You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials (for purposes of this Schedule, "Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not Web.com, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email or otherwise transmit via the Online Marketing Services. C. In addition to all other restrictions under this Agreement and the Acceptable Use Policy, you agree to not use the Online Marketing Services to upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements). D. You acknowledge that Web.com does not pre-screen Content, but that Web.com and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or move any Content that is available via the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, Web.com and its designees shall have the right to remove any Content that violates this Agreement or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by Web.com or submitted to Web.com. E. You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the Online Marketing Services, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices. F. Web.com reserves the right to reject any advertisements from entities for any reason, including those products and/or advertisements deemed to be inappropriate in any way. This includes advertisements or links to pornography, violence, vulgar language, dating/personal ad sites, mp3 sites, gambling, racial/hate promotion, foreign language, etc. 3. Fees and Payment Terms. A. Payment for the Online Marketing Services selected by you will be on a pre-paid basis, due and payable at the beginning of the term, and will continue billing at the beginning of any and all subsequent terms until such time as you or we terminate the Online Marketing Services. To participate in the premium listings service (the "Listings Service") (as a part of the Online Marketing Services and in particular the Paid Search Advertising Services further defined in Schedule P to this Agreement), you must be an active, current Web.com account holder. You agree to pay us or our third party vendors for all charges incurred by your use of the Listings Service. For charges generated through the delivery of clicks to your site, you will be charged based on actual clicks and pay all charges in US Dollars. All charges are exclusive of taxes. Charges are solely based on our (or our third party vendors') click measurements. For all pay-per-click or similar Online Marketing Services with fees paid in advance based on projected advertising spend and related service and/or management fees, for all amounts not spent on pay-per-click or other advertising and not otherwise allocated towards related service or management fees, such amounts may not rollover or be returned, but instead may be retained by Web.com. B. You are responsible for paying all taxes and government charges, and reasonable expenses and attorney fees we incur in any action associated with the collection of service fees. You agree to submit any claims or disputes regarding any charge to your account in writing to us within sixty (60) days of such charge otherwise such claim or dispute will be waived and such charge will be final and not subject to challenge. C. Any one-time service fees charged to your account and any initial deposit, the value of which will be credited to your account, are non-refundable. When your funds on deposit with us fall below the minimum level for active accounts, defined as 20% of your estimated monthly click charge for the PPC Services, we will automatically bill your credit card, charge card, or debit card on file the amount equal to the minimum monthly amount (defined as your Average Daily Spend amount multiplied by 30 days), as specified by you during the Listings Service signup. We reserve the right to change the minimum level for active accounts at any time. You have the option of terminating your Listings Service at any time. Such termination of your Listings Service shall be effective at the end of your normal billing cycle, or when your funds on deposit are exhausted. At time of notice of termination, we reserve the right to allocate any or all of your available funds to any outstanding charges or fees due us. Upon the effective date of termination, your listings will be removed from the search engines. 4. Your License. Web.com grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right and license to use on a single computer the object code of any software provided to you by Web.com in connection with the Online Marketing Services ("Software"); provided that you do not (and do not allow any third party to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right in the Software. You agree not to modify the Software in any manner or form, or to use modified versions of the Software, including (without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to the Online Marketing Services. You agree not to access the Online Marketing Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Web.com for use in accessing the Online Marketing Services. 5. Specific Restrictions. In certain instances involving the Online Marketing Services, Web.com will perform industry research in order to provide keyword phrase choices to you. During these research activities, Web.com may contact you via email with information that will require a response. Response will be necessary for the project to move forward in a timely manner. In these situations, if a response is not received from the client for more than 60 days, the project is considered "abandoned" and payment is surrendered in full. Web.com will not conduct any type of intellectual property review or analysis of recommended keyword phrases and will further conduct no review of any third party rights to recommended keyword phrases. You agree it is entirely your responsibility and obligation to conduct an analysis of any recommended keyword phrases to determine whether any other party may have any type of rights to the recommended keyword phrases. Web.com will not be held liable for any claims arising out of your choice or lack thereof of recommended keyword phrases. You agree that you assume all risks for trademark infringement, brand infringement, intellectual property infringement or other claims based on your choice of keyword phrases. Any tutorial that is provided on a 30-minute or 60-minute basis as a part of the Online Marketing Services is for information purposes only. These tutorials are one time only and if the tutorial is cut short for any reason by you prior to the end of the 30-minute or 60-minute session no continuation of the tutorial is permitted.